Abstract:In order to solve the modelling problem of biochemical oxygen demand(BOD) in wastewater treatment process, this paper proposes an online BOD predictive method based on echo state network(ESN). The gradient-based rule online algorithm is adopted to train the ESN model. To guarantee the convergence of the online learning algorithm, the range of the learning rate is determined based on Lyapunov theory. The experimental results demonstrate that the BOD prediction precision based on ESN if improved two orders of magnitude than conventional neural networks, and also the flexibility of the model is improved.